The Longest Silence
  • Published: 3 August 2001
  • ISBN: 9780224061018
  • Imprint: Yellow Jersey
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $39.99
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The Longest Silence

A Life In Fishing

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3 Aug 2001
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Widely hailed as one of the best fishing books ever to be published, The Longest Silence is a book that has firmly established a place for itself amongst the classics of the genre.

Thomas McGuane's obsession with fish has taken him from the river in his backyard to the holiest waters of the fly-fisher's world. As he travels the fish take him to many and various subjects ripe for random speculation: rods and reels, the classification of anglers according to the flies they prefer, family and memory - right down to why fishermen lie.

The Longest Silence sets the heart pounding for a glimpse of moving water, and demonstrates what a life dedicated to sport reveals about life.
  • Published: 3 August 2001
  • ISBN: 9780224061018
  • Imprint: Yellow Jersey
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $39.99
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About the author

Thomas McGuane

Thomas McGuane is the author of nine novels - The Sporting Club, The Bushwhacked Piano, Panama, Nobody's Angel, Soemthing to be Desired, Keep the Change, Nothing but Blue Skies, The Cadence of Grass and Ninety-Two in the Shade- three collections of essays and one of short stories. His most recent book was The Longest Silence: A Life in Fishing. He lives in Sweet Grass County, Montana.

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Praise for The Longest Silence

We'd all rather be fishing than doing anything else. But if you can't do it, then reading about it is the next best thing. The Longest Silence is one of the best fishing trips I've had this year

Jeremy Paxman, Daily Telegraph

Few are the works of literature which can successfully capture the essence of a sport. With this soulful and reflective work, much-lauded American novelist, Thomas McGuane has surely created a modern classic

Scotland on Sunday

It's a meaty book and an uplifting one, dazzlingly well-written. Just as I'd be a proud angler if I could catch specimens half as big as his 25lb sea trout from the Rio Grande, so I'd be a proud man if I could write a book half as good as this

Financial Times

Writing to die for

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